/Pendulum

Code written for an early physics project on simple harmonic motion

Primary LanguageJava

Pendulum Readme

INTRODUCTION

This program was created as a teaching assistant for teachers who are trying to show students how pendulums undergo simple harmonic motion. This can accurately display the pendulum in motion and the program will also draw a graph according to the velocity and acceleration, which is useful for comparing the two values to each other.

KEY CONTROLS

  • S Control whether the system is running or stopped
  • R Resets the values of the pendulum to restart the system
  • <-- Moves the drawn graph along its own axis to the left
  • --> Moves the drawn graph along its own axis to the right

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The system requirements information on this page represents a subset to provide overview of supported browsers and operating systems.

  • Windows 8+ (Desktop)
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista SP2
  • Windows XP SP3 (32-bit); Windows XP SP2 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
  • RAM: 128 MB; 64 MB for Windows XP (32-bit)
  • Disk space: 124 MB

If the computer in use fails to meet these required specifications the program may struggle to open and/or run. Without these requirements you may experience a significant drop in the programs frame rate and because the program uses values directly from the computer the program may display inaccurate results, for the pendulum and the drawn graph.